Spending: Then & Now

Our Mr Obama said in a 2006 floor speech that preceded a Sentate vote to extend the debt limit:

Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”

Mr Obama then later joined his fellow Demorats in voting en bloc against raising the debt increase.

From TheHill.com:

Now Obama is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling, something lawmakers are almost certain to do despite misgivings about the federal debt. The ceiling already has been hiked three times in the past two years, and the House took action earlier this year to raise the ceiling to $13 trillion.

"Conservatives" elected Mr George Walker Bush. Myself included. Little did we know, then, that he was just a bit of a Social Conservative (with his millions and millions of dollars wasted on AIDS in Africa, an exercise in enriching the pockets of black continental African racists). And little did we know that he was a massive Fiscal Liberal. He never met an expensive bill he didn't essentially endorse. Vetoes? Vetoes? "We don't need no steenkeen vetoes!"

Considering that, he was only, at best, a moderate security Conservative. He refused to constrain our borders both north and south.

Which brings us to now:

Again, from TheHill.com:

The Senate must move legislation to raise the federal debt limit beyond $12.1 trillion by mid-October, a move viewed as necessary despite protests about the record levels of red ink.The move will highlight the nation’s record debt, which has been central to Republican attacks against Democratic congressional leaders and President Barack Obama. The year’s deficit is expected to hit a record $1.6 trillion.

Where's TARP?

Where's all of our Stimulus Packages?

Who accounts for this? Where has an accounting been? Nowhere? Nothing? Billions pissed away as if they didn't exist?

And yet, despite this, despite Mr Obama's abhorrence with the Bush Administrations up-pushing of the Nation Debt?

Oh, well.

That's fine.

Because he is, after all, The One. And it's All About Him now.

BZ